Dubai Market Data

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Monthly report

Dubai property market — February 2008

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside February 2008. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales988Registered in February 2008up278.5%
Total value9.06BRegistered in February 2008Across 75 communities
Price per sqft699/sqftMedian across February 2008up108.5%
Sale price2.50MMedian across February 20080% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 988 property sales in February 2008, worth AED 9.06B in total, across 75 communities. That is 279% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 2,500,000 at AED 699/sqft, 108.5% above the same month last year. 0% of sales were off-plan.

Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 381 registered sales, while Al Ttay took the most money at AED 1.57B.

Against the previous month, Palm Jumeirah rose 25% to 110 sales, while Marsa Dubai fell 10% to 381.

Sales by month

Price per square foot by month

Median price per sqft

Where the sales were

The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in February 2008, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Marsa Dubai381-9.7%759.23M949K674/sqft0%
Palm Jumeirah110+25.0%610.99M2.80M388/sqft0%
Al Ttay87—1.57B19.00M950/sqft0%
Al Thanyah Third47-28.8%85.35M844K509/sqft0%
Al Thanayah Fourth40-69.2%105.60M2.10M616/sqft0%
Wadi Al Safa 630-63.9%75.79M2.21M319/sqft0%
Al Ruwayyah28+100.0%212.28M7.14M279/sqft0%
Al Warsan First23-64.6%331.07M12.62M1,062/sqft0%
Al Thanyah Fifth22+175.0%525.04M6.80M673/sqft0%
Jabal Ali Industrial First20+150.0%539.04M27.27M1,350/sqft0%
Mirdif18-30.8%158.13M6.57M633/sqft0%
Al Jadaf16-75.4%270.88M16.04M1,137/sqft6%
Hor Al Anz13+30.0%42.41M2.40M901/sqft0%
Al Warqa First12—125.86M11.23M750/sqft0%
Al Nahda Second7+75.0%233.99M21.29M1,107/sqft0%

Where the money went

Ranked by total registered value rather than count — a different list, and the one that shows where capital actually landed.

CommunityValueSales
Al Ttay1.57B87
Marsa Dubai759.23M381
Al Safouh Second750.00M2
Palm Jumeirah610.99M110
Burj Khalifa553.31M6
Jabal Ali Industrial First539.04M20
Al Thanyah Fifth525.04M22
Al Hamriya350.00M1
Al Warsan First331.07M23
Al Jadaf270.88M16

Biggest movers

Change in registered sales against the previous month. Limited to communities with at least 50 sales in both — below that a swing is noise.

CommunitySalesChange
Palm Jumeirah110+25.0%
Marsa Dubai381-9.7%

The largest sales of February 2008

Each row links to its own register record, so any figure in this report can be traced to the transactions behind it.

Registered property transactions from the Dubai Land Department
DateCommunityProject / buildingTypeBedsSizePrice/sqftPrice
28 Feb 2008Al Safouh Second—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified167,800 sqftAED 4,172/sqftAED 700,000,000
19 Feb 2008Al Thanyah Fifth—DMCC Master CommunityBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified17,760 sqftAED 21,396/sqftAED 380,000,000
20 Feb 2008Al Hamriya—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified63,920 sqftAED 5,476/sqftAED 350,000,000
20 Feb 2008Trade Center First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified10,000 sqftAED 25,000/sqftAED 250,000,000
5 Feb 2008Marsa DubaiESCAN MARINA TOWERDubai MarinaVillaResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified35,445 sqftAED 6,207/sqftAED 220,000,000
14 Feb 2008Burj KhalifaUPPER CRESTDownTown DubaiBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified40,778 sqftAED 4,537/sqftAED 185,000,000
11 Feb 2008Burj KhalifaSTAR HILL TOWERS & GALLAERYBusiness BayLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified150,028 sqftAED 1,200/sqftAED 180,000,000
12 Feb 2008World Islands—The WorldLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified1,860,539 sqftAED 94/sqftAED 175,000,000
21 Feb 2008Burj KhalifaONE BUSINESS BAYBusiness BayLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified65,786 sqftAED 1,200/sqftAED 78,942,000
20 Feb 2008Al Karama—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified39,600 sqftAED 1,894/sqftAED 75,000,000

Source: Dubai Land Department open data, retrieved from the Digital Dubai data.dubai platform. Figures cover registered transactions and Ejari-registered tenancy contracts, and are statistical summaries of public record — not a valuation of any individual property. Registration data can be amended or backdated by the source after first publication. Refresh times vary by dataset; records shown here are not a live feed.